Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.
Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter 1 Cryptonomicon by Stephenson 2 Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 by Isaacs and Downing The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown) by Time-Life Orbiter by Ellis (illustrated by Foran with Stewart) How to Get Happily Published by Appelbaum The New Space Opera edited by Dozois and Straham (Original at Flickr.) Yes, still reading […]
The “classic” sci-fi time waster is not just restricted to colonizing distant suns and/or flying around blowing up shit. No. Sometimes it involves flying to distant suns that are already colonized, geting out of your spaceship and then blowing up shit. And after all, isn’t that — the epic space opera, anchored on some Byzantine galaxy-spanning empire […]
In the previous two installments of this series, we discussed two “classic” science fiction games from the PC world: Sierra On-Line’s Outpost and Microprose’s Lightspeed. A theme common to both of those games is a sense of isolation — you’re cut off from the rest of humankind and you’ll have to live by your wits […]
Well, the garden is winding down. Aside from one or two cherry tomato plants that are holding on for dear life, about the only thing left to harvest is the butternut squash. And they’re not quite done yet. Just about all the carrots and everything else have finished their respective runs. It was a good […]
From Fogus: I… uh… what are the rules? From iTunes: songs with “acid”: Acid 8000 Acid Attack Acid Man Acid Theory Acidfire Acidosis Gun Acid Higher State of Consciousness (Tweekin Acid Funk mix) Trans Fatty Acid When I Fall In Love (Stryke’s Acid dub) From Flickr: photos with “bear”: woolly bear No Bear Dogs “Dr. Bear” […]
In the first post of this series, I gave a quick introduction to the point of those reminiscent rambling. I’m waxing nostalgic about some older PC science fiction games that I used to play and giving a little thought to what they might be like if they were made more recently. In the last installment, […]
A little while ago, during the drive home from Maine, I was struck by some odd reminiscence for a few classic (nee “old”) science fiction games I used to play on the computer. By classic, I don’t necessarily mean that they were best sellers 1 or even particularly good games 2. No, by “classic”, I […]
1. we have adventures, 2. Happy Fun Hat, 3. capturing the view, 4. more proof; all pictures… Mosaic created with fd’s Flickr Toys. Original mosaic image on Flickr.
Fun and games… Out of town family visitors and then a trial run hike up Mt. Philo. Original photo at Flickr.
To my A.: glad I spent it with you. (And H., of course.) (Original photo at Flickr.)